Investor profile
Shelly Rao
Corporate VC & Director at Juniper Networks, Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Shelly Rao works as a Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The firm's known portfolio counts 11 companies.
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Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Director at Juniper Networks, whose known portfolio counts 7 companies
- Tensordyne
- ZEDEDA
- Aira Technologies
- Cohere Technologies
- Tibit Communications
- Quantum Bridge
- Colorintech
Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, whose known portfolio counts 11 companies
- Ayar Labs
- Greenly
- OpenLight
- SingleStore
- Flywheel.io
- Aleph Alpha
- WEKA
- Alation
- Dragos
- Lightmatter
- vFunction
Investor Profile
Founders in the listed sectors AI, Climate, Hardware and SaaS, and focus areas AI Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Data Analytics fall inside that listing.
Stage-wise, the deals at Hewlett Packard Enterprise cluster around Growth, Seed and Series A rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Shelly Rao is worth approaching.
Colleagues
Dan Amiga
Founding Investor
Israel
Michael Fey
Board Member
Southlake, United States
Gopalswamy Srinivasan
Director - Compute Business
Bengaluru, India
Mistress Hellfire
Managing Partner
Washington, United States
William Paul
Managing Partner
Oshimili South, Nigeria
Umesh Tripathi
Founder
Bengaluru, India
Ganesan Sivakumar
Business Manager - 3 Dot Venture
Chengalpattu, India
Jeff Brown
Sr. Sales Executive
Butler, United States
Nigel Stokes
Seed Investor
Toronto, Canada
Chris Gregson
Real Estate Broker & Investor
San Francisco, United States
Francisca Gyasi
Senior Executive Partner
Netherlands
Chris Tinker
Chief Technologist
Atlanta, United States
Al Guison
AMG Ventures
Long Beach, United States
Marsha Walker
Investor
Chandler, United States
Özlem Tut
Hewlett Packard Enterprise şirketinde Managing Partner
American Samoa
Sai Nagarjuna Ankala
Venture Capital
Waltham, United States
Alex Veprinsky
Investor
San Francisco, United States
Simge Özdamar
Hewlett Packard Enterprise şirketinde Managing Partner
Istanbul, Turkey
Alexia Clements
Investor
San Francisco, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Shelly Rao?
Shelly Rao is a corporate venture investor based in San Francisco, California, United States, listed as Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The known portfolio of that firm counts 11 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Shelly Rao personally.
What does Shelly Rao invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Climate, Hardware and SaaS; listed focus areas include AI Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Shelly Rao invest at?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise appears in Growth, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals, and Shelly Rao is listed there as Director, Corporate Development & Ventures. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Shelly Rao listed at?
Shelly Rao is listed as Director, Corporate Development & Ventures at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 19 other people in the database share a firm with Shelly Rao.
How do I contact Shelly Rao?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Shelly Rao. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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